Anthropic, an American AI startup, has recently announced that the company secured $3.5 billion in a Series E funding round, bringing its post-money valuation to $61.5 billion.

The investment was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with additional participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, among other new and existing investors, according to Anthropic.

With this latest funding, Anthropic plans to advance its development of next-generation AI systems, expand its compute capacity, and deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment. The company also intends to accelerate its international expansion as part of its broader strategy to develop AI systems capable of serving as true collaborators.

The recent announcement follows the recent launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has demonstrated significant improvements in coding capabilities, an area where the company aims to make further advancements in the coming months.

Anthropic's AI models are being increasingly adopted across industries, with companies such as Zoom, Snowflake, Pfizer, Cursor, and Codeium integrating Claude to enhance their operations.

According to Anthropic, Replit has also leveraged Claude in its 'Agent' tool to transform natural language into code, driving a tenfold increase in revenue. Thomson Reuters has incorporated Claude into its CoCounsel platform to assist tax professionals, while Novo Nordisk has used the technology to reduce clinical study report writing time from 12 weeks to 10 minutes. Additionally, Amazon's Alexa+ now integrates Claude to provide advanced AI capabilities to millions of households and Prime members.